Almost every culture in the world ___00___ held celebrations of thanks for a harvest. The American
Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies
almost four hundred years ___21___ .

In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people who sailed ___22___ the Atlantic
Ocean to settle in the New World. This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church
of England and they wanted to ___23___ from it. The Pilgrims settled in ___24___ is now
the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived
___25___ late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony died from disease.
The following spring, the Iroquois Indians ___26___ them how to grow corn (maize), a new food
for the colonists, and other crops in the unfamiliar ___27___ and how to hunt and fish.

In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins were harvested.
The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast ___28___ . They invited the local Indian chief
and ninety Indians. The Indians brought deerto roast with the turkeys and other wild game ___29___
by the colonists. The colonists already knew how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn
and dishes from the Indians. To the first Thanksgiving, those Indians who ___30___ even brought popcorn.

00)

A) is

B) was

C) has

D) did

21)

A) past

B) before

C) ahead

D) ago

22)

A) along

B) across

C) through

D) in

23)

A) divide

B) cut off

C) separate

D) take apart

24)

A) what

B) where

C) which

D) that

25)

A) enough

B) too

C) so

D) such

26)

A) learned

B) made

C) gave

D) taught

27)

A) plain

B) field

C) soil

D) space

28)

A) was planned

B) planned

C) has planned

D) did plan

29)

A) offering

B) offer

C) offered

D) to offer

30)

A) invited

B) were invited

C) have invited

D) have been invited

Part 2: Dolphins Save Surfer from Shark (10 points)

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark - a monster great white that came of
nowhere - had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back. That’s when bottlenose dolphins
intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him
get to shore, where quick first aid provided
a friend saved his life.

‘Truly a miracle,’ Endris told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Thursday.

The attack occurred
Tuesday, Aug. 28, just before 11 a.m., at Marina Monterey, Calif., where the 24-year-old owner of Monterey Aquarium Services had gone with friends
for a day of the sport which
love. Nearly four months later, Endris, who is still undergoing
physical therapy to repair muscle damage suffered during the attack, is back in the water and on his
board in
same spot where he almost lost his life.

‘It came out of nowhere. There was no warning
all. Maybe I saw it a quarter second before it hit
.
But no warning. It was just a giant shark,’ Endris said. ‘It just shows you
perfect predators they really are.’

The shark, estimated at 12 to 15 feet long, hit him first as Endris
sitting on his
surfboard, but couldn’t get its monsterjaws around
the surfer and the surfboard. ‘I was
very lucky,’ Endris said.

Part 1: Fears and Phobias (7 points)

Fear is an important protective instinct. When there is a sign of danger, certain chemicals are
released into the blood. These produce physical effects that can help us to overcome danger. For
example, blood is directed to the muscles to make them stronger and sweating increases to cool
down the muscles. ___41___ This is why we go ‘white with fear’ and feel sweaty and cold at
the same time.

All these symptoms are natural and healthy when we are faced with danger. For many people they
can even be exciting and pleasurable so long as they can be controlled. ___42___ But some
people experience fears for reasons that are not clear. This is very common in childhood. For example,
Tom from Realing writes, ‘I am nine years old and I have a terrible fear of fire. ___43___

Allan from Seanea is scared of being alone in a dark room: ‘When I go to bed, I close my curtains
and open my door wide. ___44___ Many of these childhood fears, such as fear of the dark or
of storms, disappear as the child grows older. For some, however, the fear turns into a phobia.

Phobias are fears which can be so strong that they can send your mind into panic and paralyse
your body, although there is no reason for them. The most common phobias are a fear of heights,
closed spaces, spiders or flying. ___45___ They can include the fear of running water or even fear
ofgoing to the hairdresser’s.

Most phobias can be overcome. ___46___ It is also useful to learn to be more rational about
what you fear. There are many people who have phobias but live normal lives by facing what they fear
and learning to overcome it. ___47___ .

A) I also have all the lights on outside my room.
B) They’re still scared offalling from high places.
C) I keep having nightmares about it.
D) Some people hate horror stories and films.
E) Also, faster breathing provides more oxygen.
F) However you do it, the important thing is to control the fear before it controls you.
G) One way of doing this is by discussing them.
H) That is why we can enjoy fun-fair rides or horror films.
I) On the other hand, people don’t like to say they have phobias.
J) But there are endless uncommon phobias too.

(a) Webex is commonly known as a meeting program which allows its users to deliver presentations
online by using audio-conferencing tools. This program allows the users to schedule the
meetings easily as well as invite those attending through an email by using Microsoft Outlook.

(b) Furthermore, this kind of program is able to provide some options to make the meetings run
efficiently with a private environment and complete security. Yet some users still have no idea
how to set up this program at first. There are several steps you have to take to install this
program appropriately.

(c) The first thing to do is to keep the date of the Webex conference call on a public Webex calendar,
which is available in Microsoft Outlook. You can open Outlook from your computer by doubleclicking
on ‘Folders’. Then, choose the Webex folder. Enter the password you want to use. The
next step is to select the time and the date for the conference call.

(d) The second thing is to set up the Webex meeting in Outlook. Navigate the cursor onto the button
of ‘Schedule meeting’. Then it will show a page on which you can fill in the meeting details.
You can add the name of the meeting in the Microsoft appointment field. Enter the password
of the meeting. To reserve the conference call, you have to set up another password. In addition,
you have to include a password for each of the callers who need to join the conference.

(e) Then, select the field of ‘Invite Attendance’. Enter the addresses of the participants manually
from the Global Address book. After that, you can send the invitation for the conference call
directly simply by clicking the ‘Send’ button. However, make sure that you have entered all the
details. Fortoday‘s needs, an audio conference call is very efficient. By following the procedures
above, you can now make your conference call easily.

48) An organiser needs only one password to set up a conference.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

49) There are no dangers when using this program.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

50) The addresses of the participants can be entered from Outlook.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

51) The time and the date should be selected first.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

52) Presentations can be delivered online by using Webex.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

53) The date of the call can be kept on a Webex calendar.

A) True
B) False
Which of the paragraphs
supports your answer?

Part 3: JulesVerne (1828-1905) (7 points)

Often ignored by English critics, Jules Verne was a productive writer whose work combined a lively
imagination with a gift for popularizing science and travel. He remains among the classic writers
of nineteenth-century French literature.

Born in Nantes, Jules was the eldest of five children. His father Pierre, a successful lawyer, was
known to write occasional verse but encouraged his son to follow the family profession, which Verne
did. After he had finished the Lycée in Nantes in 1847, Jules went to Paris to study law.

For the next ten years he devoted himself to his real interest, writing, living an artist’s existence
in several dark, uncomfortable places. During this time he received moderate success with his plays,
and it is thought that about seven of his works were put on stage or were published.

In 1857 - after he married Honorine de Viane, a widow with two daughters - Verne became
a stockbroker and for a time his interests kept changing between the stock exchange and the theatre.
It was not until the success of some of his traveller’s tales which he wrote for Museé des familles
that his true talent for imaginative travel stories was seen. The success of Five Weeks in a Balloon
(1862) led to a partnership between Verne and the publisher Hetzel that lasted for forty years and was
intended, in Hetzel’s own words, ‘to sum up all the geographical, geological, physical and astronomical
knowledge gained by modern science, and to rewrite the history ofthe world’.

Between the publication of Journey to the Centre ofthe Earth (1864) and his death Verne wrote
sixty-three novels. Verne himself travelled widely in Europe, North Africa and America and was a keen
yachtsman. He divided his time between Paris, Amiens and his yacht, but for reasons which remain
a mystery, he suddenly sold his yacht in 1886 and nevertravelled again.

Later, he was shot by his mentally unstable nephew, leaving him disabled. Jules Verne died in
Amiens in 1905. After his death several works bearing his name appeared, but it has since been
discovered that Verne’s son Michel wrote most ofthem.

54) Jules Verne had ________ siblings. (1 word)

55) There was a time when he did not know whether to concentrate on the ________ or stock exchange.(1 word)

56) Why Verne sold his yacht is a ________ (1 word)

57) Verne, as a writer, was not respected by ________ ________. (2 words)

58) Some of Verne’s works published after his death were probably written or rewritten by ________ ________ . (2 words)

59) Jules Verne’s father was an occasional writer of ________ . (1 word)

60) Before Verne’s ________ , some of his plays were performed or published. (1 word)